2023-24 San Diego Gulls/Tulsa Oilers

[Hockey Duckie]

Matter of time before Zell takes the team lead in points. Gonna be interesting to see if they keep him down there if he goes above ppg. Seems to really be coming on of late.

Zell's offense is a known and, probably, an expected high output. The defense is what Zell needs to elevate to make the push to the NHL level.

There is also another factor, who is going to be sent down as well as who is going to sit? We are currently running 14F and 7D, with the possibility of D Drysdale and C Zegras returning soon. It feels as though Zell might be stashed in the AHL all season, except at the end of the season as a reward.

 

[Leonardo87]

Wonder if there is any chance Regenda, Zellweger, or Perreault comes up at some point. Ducks need some new blood, and if it leaves McGinn a healthy scratch So be it.

 

[MMC]

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Tracey's back too. Was King scratched because of his own goal or that's just part of the rotational aspect that's been going on all season?

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Wonder if there is any chance Regenda, Zellweger, or Perreault comes up at some point. Ducks need some new blood, and if it leaves McGinn a healthy scratch So be it.

I feel like if given the chance to play an NHL game that Perreault is gonna do his best to impress Cronin. Would maybe try him on the Henrique line and bump Silf to the 4th line or put him on the Carlsson line to see how he does with favorable matchups.

 

[lwvs84]

I feel like if given the chance to play an NHL game that Perreault is gonna do his best to impress Cronin. Would maybe try him on the Henrique line and bump Silf to the 4th line or put him on the Carlsson line to see how he does with favorable matchups.

I'd like to wait until Z is back. I want to see him play with two legit top/middle 6 players... Killorn-Carlsson-Perrault or Henrique-Zegras-Perrault.
Vatrano-McTavish-Strome (Why fix the only thing that isn't broke?)
Henrique-Z-Terry (Maybe having Rico-Terry gets him going? Also a 2A/2B line so pick your poison on matchups)
Killorn-Carlsson-Perrault (Hopefully Killorn will be back up to speed)

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Looks like the Gulls are gonna win. It's 3-1 with a minute left!

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Gulls win 3-1.

3 stars of the game
1. G Suchanek (23/24 saves)
2. D Hagg
3. RW Caulfield

 

[Mr Rogers]

Zell made a really nice play on Judd’s goal

 

[TheGoodShepard1]

Wonder if Suchanek is playing himself into a contract. Seems to have already leapfrogged Alexander in the organizational pecking order

 

[MMC]

Wiebe has been assigned to Tulsa per AHL transactions

 

[Masch78]

Wonder if Suchanek is playing himself into a contract. Seems to have already leapfrogged Alexander in the organizational pecking order

He already deserved one based on the Camps imho. Really never understood the Alexander signing. He is just big.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

He already deserved one based on the Camps imho. Really never understood the Alexander signing. He is just big.

I think we ran into goalie injuries at the NHL level. Mid-season, we called up Dostal. That left OEE as the lone goalie in the AHL. Eventually, OEE played one game in the NHL too, revealing the injury situation in net at the NHL level.

We signed Alexander mid-way through his season in Juniors and brought him over. Once the team started to get healthy and when Clang's season was over in Europe, then Clang was sent down to the ECHL.

Note, our goaltending coach Maharaj is battling cancer and Verbeek hired an asst goalie coach while Maharaj is away. The cancer diagnosis was shared after the reg season last year. Maharaj helped big man Stolarz get back his groove and then some. I was hoping that Maharaj could also mold Alexander, since he's a big guy too.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Here are game recaps from Defend the Nest (DTN):

2023-2024 Game 15: San Diego Gulls vs Chicago Wolves

Having won their first two games of the season and then lost the next twelve the San Diego Gulls once again desperately hoped to break the skid and get their fi

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2023-2024 Game 16: San Diego Gulls vs Chicago Wolves

Having set a club record with their thirteenth straight loss, the San Diego Gulls tried again to break the skid in a rematch with the Wolves the very next night

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[MMC]

 

[ADHB]

What‘s the deal with Pastujov? He seemed like a decent prospect if he could (maybe vastly) improve his skating. Is he just incapable of doing that, or is he not putting in the work and/or doesn’t think it’s a priority? I guess it’s not necessarily easy, but seems like out of all the flaws that hinder hockey players, fixing your skating stride should be the easiest one.

 

[MMC]

What‘s the deal with Pastujov? He seemed like a decent prospect if he could (maybe vastly) improve his skating. Is he just incapable of doing that, or is he not putting in the work and/or doesn’t think it’s a priority? I guess it’s not necessarily easy, but seems like out of all the flaws that hinder hockey players, fixing your skating stride should be the easiest one.

Needs an ECHL stint

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Gulls down 3-0 in the first. Haven't spent much time in Texas zone. Good to see De Leo.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Regenda hurt while throwing a check. Put zero weight on his left leg, in serious pain while two players helped him off the ice.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

A bit unfair to judge a defense based on a single moment in time, and this is just after a line change, but I'll still call this Exhibit A in the case of the terrible defensive team. Players just all zombie-ing towards the puck carrier.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Nice shift for Perreault, got chances off of both forechecking and back checking. Spun away from what would have been a huge hip check, held on to the puck and got it wide to Gawdin. Regenda has been replaced on that line by McLaughlin which is quite a downgrade.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

King scores after coming out of the box, uses Zellweger as a decoy on a 2 on 1 and snipes a wrister. He's got a great shot. Nesterenko should get an assist on the bounce pass to spring the rush.

And then Nesterenko f***s up a 3 on 1, sending a pass behind De Leo. No SOG.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Much better period, they're drawing a lot of penalties and getting chances. Lopina, Caulfield, Agozzino with partial breaks. Zellweger has like 500 shot attempts.

Nesterenko (he's very high event tonight) fakes going behind the net and instead passes out front to Lopina who bangs it home on the PP.

 

[Static]

And a minute later...

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Horrendous D coverage gives Texas an easy goal. Gulls answer back, King again, with Nesterenko causing havoc in front.

Juuuuuust a bit behind the play.